About Me
Since a young age I have been passionate about art and strongly inclined towards portraiture. Having recently completed 3 years at The University of Northampton to gain a first class BA (hons) Degree in Fine Art Painting, I found I was able to explore my preoccupation with both realism and portraiture and progress as an artist on many different levels.My most recent work has focused on the idea of the photograph providing us with an index for truth, and my attention to characteristically photographic details questions how the relationship between illusion and reality can become blurred. If a viewer perceives an image to have a strong likeness to a photograph, does this automatically become accepted as real? I aim to absorb the abstract shapes and lines created by the camera and manipulate them through painterly techniques and colour. My subjects are always people close to me, giving me a greater emotional connection with the image and affecting they way in which I see colour, eye contact and surroundings within a composition.
As a 23 year old graduate I'm aware of a great opportunity to continue to paint, developing my conceptual understanding of the medium and technical ability. I hope to continue taking art commissions in the future.
I now have a painting, entitled "Meral" exhibited in this year's "BP Portrait Award". The exhibition is open until the 14th September in London at the National Portrait Gallery (free entry), travelling to Wolverhampton and then Aberdeen, finishing at the end of January.